Improvement in apparatus for dyeing yarn in skeins



W. McALLISTER.

APPARATUS FOR DYEING YARN IN SKEINS.

Patented May 16, 1876.

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N PETERS, PHOTO-LITNOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D10.

UNITED STATES.

PATENT 'OFFIcE.

WILLIAM MGALLISTER, OF LAWRENCE, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUSFOR DYEING YARN IN SKElNS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 177,345, dated May 16, 1876; application filed March 10, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM MoALLrs- TER, of Lawrence, of the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machinery or Apparatus for Dyeing Yarn in Skeins; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanyingdrawings, of which- Figure 1 is a top view, Fig. 2 a side elevation, and Fig. 3 a longitudinal section, of a yarn dyeing apparatus containing iny invention. Fig. 4 is a top view, Fig. 5 a bottom view, Fig. 6 a side elevation, and Fig. 7 an end view, of one of the skein-holder carriers. Fig. 8 is a longitudinal section of one of the rods for supporting the skeins. Each of such rods, as represented, is made in two lengths or pieces, a a, connected at their inner ends by one being inserted in a socket, s, in the other, or by being screwed therein.

The object of so making each of the rods is to enable it to be used to hold the skeins in what is termed an extractor, which is an apparatus for freeing the skeins of water or a liquid by centrifugal force.

In the said drawings, A represents a dyevat, provided on its top with bearings b b for receiving the journals 0 c of a rotary skeinholdercarrier supporter, B, composed of a cross'shaft, d, andtwo recessed heads, 6 6, arranged as represented. Each of these heads is provided with two parallel recesses, f f, in its inner side, to receive, as a drawer-frame receives a drawer, the ends of the skeinholder carriers 0 0. Each of the said carriers G O is composed of arectangular frame, 9, a head-board, h, elevated thereon at one end thereof, and two rods, 6 i, raised on such frame at its opposite end. On the said rods there is arranged a pile or series of bars, la k it, each of them being provided with two holes to receive the rods 43 t. On its inner face each bar 70 also has two holes made in it, but not through it, and near its ends. These latter holes are to receive and support two rods, D D, which also are inserted at their opposite ends in the head board h. These rods serve to hold the skeins s, which are arranged on such rods, a series of such skeins being placed on each pair of the rods.

From the above it will be seen that each skein-holder F is composed of the two rods D D, and the perforated far 70, arranged as shown.

The skein-holder carriers 0 (l are held in place in the recessed heads of their rotary supporter B by turubnttons E E, arranged as shown.

In some respects my yarn-dyeing'apparatus is similar to that patented to me on August 11, 1874. They differ, however, in several essential particulars, especially in the construction of the skein-holders, which, instead of being rectangular frames, are each composed of the two rods D D and the perforated bar It.

In my machine the skein-holders, instead of being directly supported by the rotary supporter B, are sustained by separate carriers G 0, made as set forth, and applied to the supporter B, so as to be capable of being run into and out of it, as a drawer can, with respect to its case.

In my present apparatus, by having separate series of yarn-holders, I am enabled to remove all of a series at one operation from, or apply it to, the rotary supporter, thus saving much time in supplying the rotary supporter with the yarn-holders; and, besides, by my invention I attain other advantages with reference to that described in my said patent.

I claim-- 1. In combination with the rotary supporter B, the skein-holder carrier 0 0 applied to it, substantially as described.

2. The combination of theskein-holder carrier O and a series of skein-holders,F, constructed and applied thereto, substantially as set forth.

3. A skein-holder carrier, G, substantially as described, composed of the frame g, the holed head-board h, and the rods ii, arranged as specified.

4. The skein-holder F, substantially as described, composed of the two rods D D, and the perforated bar k, all arranged and applied as specified.

5. In the said skein -holder, each of the and applied substantially in manner and for rods D, made in two parts or pieces, provided use with a vet, A, as set forth.

with means of connecting or disconnecting th as t f th WILLIAM MOALLISTLR.

6. The combination of the rotary supporter Witnesses:

l B, the skein-holder carriers 0 C, and their R. H. EDDY,

two series of skein holders F, all constructed J. R. SNOW. 

